Natural Language Expression in Response to a Query

1. A computer-implemented method of generating a natural language expression in response to a query, comprising: generating, in a computer, a text frame from the query; processing, in the computer, the text frame in conjunction with one or more prose configuration files that contain a set of rules, wherein the rules are applied to the text frame to convert normalized text generated from the query to prose; and displaying, in the computer, a natural language expression to a user that combines the prose from the query with results from performing the query.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 further comprising matching the query to content residing in a database to generate the results from performing the query.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 in which the database resides in a server in a network.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 2 in which the matched content is a search result summary.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the text frame comprises a data structure, the data structure representing an expanded query, the expanded query representing different elements of the query and different criteria of the query.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5 wherein the data structure comprises rows, each of the rows having a key, the key identifying information in each of the rows.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6 wherein the data structure further comprises a plurality of data structures.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 wherein the generating the text frame further comprises encapsulating the processed text frame in a markup language.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 wherein the markup language is extensible markup language (XML).

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 wherein the markup language is hypertext markup language (HTML).

11. A computer-implemented method of processing a query comprising: generating, in a computer, a text frame for the query; loading, in the computer, one or more prose configuration files; processing, in the computer, the text frame in conjunction with the one or more prose configuration files to generate prose from the query; and displaying, in the computer, a natural language expression to a user that combines the prose from the query with results from performing the query.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 further comprising matching the query to content residing in a database to generate the results from performing the query.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 in which the database resides in a server in a network.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 12 in which the matched content is a search result summary.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 14 in which the text frame comprises a data structure, the data structure representing an expanded query, the expanded query representing different elements of the query and different criteria of the query.

16. The computer-implemented method of claim 15 in which the data structure comprises rows, each of the rows having a key, the key identifying information in each of the rows.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16 in which the data structure comprises a plurality of data structures.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 11 in which generating the text frame further comprises encapsulating the processed text frame in a markup language.